[c-nsp] Growing BGP tables

Stephen J. Wilcox steve at telecomplete.co.uk
Fri Nov 26 09:22:03 EST 2004


On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Gert Doering wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 12:08:09PM +0200, Mihai CHELARU wrote:
> > Rodney Dunn wrote:
> > > http://bgp.potaroo.net/ietf/idref/draft-hardie-bounded-longest-match/
> > 
> > Looks like the AS5 will never receive the /24 prefix 
> 
> Which is a really good thing.  AS5 doesn't *need* the /24 prefix, because
> the /16 will point in the same direction anyway.

how does this help if you wish to offer all routes, guy tal mentioned earlier.. 
if one operator implements filtering they will immediately reduce the amnount of 
transit traffic that they pull as the customer will be receiving more specifics 
from another upstream

Steve



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